Developers As Pawns and One-Night Stands

jcatcw writes "At the Comes vs. Microsoft antitrust case, last Friday's testimony included evidence that James Plamondon, a Microsoft technical evangelist, in a 1996 speech referred to independent software developers as 'pawns' and compared wooing them to trying to win over a one-night stand. Last week's proceedings also included testimony by Ronald Alepin, a former CTO at Fujitsu Software Corp. and currently an adviser to the law firm Morrison Foerster LLP. He said that Lotus 1-2-3 was killed, in part, by Microsoft encouraging Lotus's programmers to use the Windows API even though Microsoft's own developers found it too complicated to use." The plaintiffs have created a site that includes transcripts of testimony presented in the case.

Comments

Re: Removes it???

[baadger]

So if working with Microsoft is a one night stand, isn't doing Open Source like doing 500 guy gangbang?

One-night stand?

[AutopsyReport]

I have high standards, you insensitive clod!

You must be a daemon in the sack.
You must be agile.
No time for debugging your problems.
I will not use a trojan horse.
Time slicing with others is not okay.
Don't ever call my thing a widget.

Ironic MS Ad

[mysqlrocks]

Anybody else get the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 ad on this Slashdot article (screen shot below)?

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/bradley1976 /slashdot_ms.jpg

"One night stand" metaphor is very apt

[david.emery]

Of course, the whole point of a one-night-stand is to get fucked.

        dave